Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the "news" was weeks old, the delegates roared applause after each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
...Secretary Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 announced this week near-complete plans for luncheons, speakers, outings, and a banquet to feature the alumni weekend which precedes by two weeks the Harvard-Stanford football game in Palo Alto...
...Saturday special luncheons will follow the annual AHC business meeting. Provost Buck, Dean David, Dean Fair of the Engineering School, and vice-Dean Livingston Hall of the Law School will speak at special group luncheons devoted to General Education, Business, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. President Conant speaks at the banquet in the evening...
...McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky. He promptly aired it by saying: "What Nicaragua needs most is a good third baseman...
...speaker at the sessions at which five prominent American industrialists discussed "Developing Executives for Business Leadership" was Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, who spoke at Saturday night's Harvard Club banquet...